Experts have a clear understanding of the potential advantages that diversity brings to teams and organizations.
APM acknowledges that diverse teams generally outperform homogeneous ones. This correlation is increasingly evident in the performance and financial outcomes of organizations.
Does this align with your personal experience?
In a previous section, you explored exceptional and high-performing teams. Based on your own observations, do you see a connection between diversity and performance? Do teams with greater diversity produce superior work? Additionally, what challenges arise when working in highly diverse teams?
We are genuinely interested in hearing about your experiences and thoughts regarding these questions in the discussion section.
Yes from my own experience diversity brings a high level of performance and increases the output of a team
In my experience at work, I have noticed that diverse team works effectively than homogeneous team members. Many times familiarities and I know it all among the homogeneous team members halt the progress of the project
Base on my experience, diversity in a team leads a better performance, increase job satisfaction and make better efficiency.
Yes, I do believe that more diversity in a team means there are different perspectives to draw from. People view things in different ways and have different strengths and weaknesses and as such can each contribute something unique.
On the flip side, different people with different views means there are bound to be disagreements on how to move forward sometimes.
I believe diversity creates room for varied perspectives, wider range of ideas, creativity, and problem-solving approaches, as well as contributing to overall excellence, it also depends on how well a project manager handles the team.
There’s this saying:over familiarity bring Enmity,this is true because when the team are familiar there will be a display pf laxity in the sense that no one will advise anyone amongst them..But when there’s diversity there will be pressure internally to present oneself approved of his field..
My experience matches and recognizes that more diverse teams tend to perform better than homogenous ones, there indeed seem to be a relationship between diversity and performance, certain professionals(skilled) exhibits a free hand to perform in the diversity space than in the homogenous ones, this likely boils down to teams ability to showcase actual talents and free hand to prove/show their worth/ability the diversity team in delivering the project goal.
Research supports the positive impact of diversity on team performance, and it aligns with my observations.
Diverse teams often bring varied perspectives, creativity, and problem-solving approaches, contributing to overall excellence.
However, challenges in highly diverse teams may include communication differences, potential misunderstandings, and the need for effective management to harness the benefits.
Balancing diversity with effective collaboration is crucial for optimal team performance.
Diversity yield tramendous perspectives and enhances performance in a team through careful management but at some point it can also cause low performance through wide range of ideas in a team
Diversity and performance are entwined in the sense that a diverse team members can outperform in a complex project than in an homogeneous team.
Diversity breeds more skills, expertise and creativity in project success. A diverse team is likely to work with more vigour as individuals in the team with various experiences would put in their efforts and also would like to be recognised for their roles.
In as much as diversity seems cool, its demerits need to be tamed. PM need to work on team communication and team conflicts….when there are different intellectual minds, there’s a likelihood of disagreement in ideation stage.
Being a project manager at MTD, involving working with heterogenous teams with divers professional and social/cultural background, one major area challenge that I can envisage is that of misunderstanding and conflicts, while interacting
I will definitely have to apply conflict management strategy and this will involve acting to broker peace amongst the concerned team members and also highlight the likely impact such issue could have on the entire project goal and the immediate beneficiaries of the project work
My suggestion will be to apply the 3 forms of feedback approach
1. Appreciation
2. Advice
3. valuation
I agreed with the Apm, Diversity Team work create more creativity, ideas and experiences. Diversity Team required a Adequate Management to derived a positive results because of diff people from different background coming together to form a Team.
I agree with the APM . There is always beauty is diversity. Diversity brings about creativity , it brings different methods of problem solving . So I strongly agree that a diverse team will outperform a homogeneous one.